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These Stunning Images Show Palestinian Life Before the Nakba

Palestinian delegation departing from Lydda to participate in the First Conference of Arab Women in Cairo, October 12, 1938. (The G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection)

Zionist propaganda refers to pre-1948 Palestine as a “land without a people.” A new photographic collection pushes back against this erasure of Palestinian history — and shows the vitality of its society before the Nakba.

Girls pushing their belongings in strollers and wheelbarrows and fleeing Jaffa, 1948. (UNRWA Archives)

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